Sen. Scott Surovell

Commending John F. Reinhart.

Celebrating the life of the Honorable GeraldL. Baliles.

Health insurance; mandated coverage for hearing aids for minors. Requires health insurers, health maintenance organizations, and corporations providing health care coverage subscription contracts to provide coverage for hearing aids and related services for children 18 years of age or younger when a licensed audiologist prescribes such hearing aids and related services. The coverage includes one hearing aid per hearing-impaired ear, up to a cost of $1,500, every 24 months. The measure applies to policies, contracts, and plans delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed on and after January 1, 2021.

Parking of vehicles; electric vehicle charging spots; civil penalties. Prohibits a person from parking a vehicle that is not a plug-in electric vehicle in a space reserved for charging electric vehicles. A violation is subject to a civil penalty of not less than $100 nor more than $250, and the vehicle may be towed or impounded.

Celebrating the life of the Honorable Eva MaeFleming Scott.

Consumer finance companies. Requires theState Corporation Commission, as a condition of licensing a consumerfinance company, to find that the applicant will not make consumerfinance loans at the same location at which the applicant makes paydayloans or motor vehicle title loans. The measure also (i) sets theminimum and maximum amounts of a consumer finance loan at $500 and$35,000, respectively; (ii) requires that such loans be installmentloans with a term that is not less than six months nor more than 120 months; (iii) sets the maximum annual interest rate on such loansat 36 percent; (iv) authorizes late payment fees of $20, providedthat they are set forth in a contract; (v) authorizes loan processingfees of the greater of $75 or five percent of the principal amountof the loan but not to exceed $150; and (vi) increases from $15 to$25 the amount of a bad check fee.

Study; JLARC; feasibility of creatinga transportation authority for Planning District 16; report. Directsthe Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the feasibilityof creating a transportation authority for Planning District 16 andto report its findings by the first day of the 2021 Regular Sessionof the General Assembly.

Commonwealth Mass Transit Fund; allocation to Fredericksburg Regional Transit. Requires that a minimum of $1million annually be allocated to Fredericksburg Regional Transitfrom the Commonwealth Mass Transit Fund. The funding is contingenton localities served by Fredericksburg Regional Transit continuingto support Fredericksburg Regional Transit by at least the amountof funding provided in the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2019.

Peer-to-peer vehicle sharing platforms; regulation;insurance; taxation. Establishes taxation, insurance coverage, sale of insurance, disclosure, safety recall, airport operation,and recordkeeping requirements for peer-to-peer vehicle sharing platforms,as defined in the bill.

Peer-to-peer vehicle sharing platforms; taxation. Provides that peer-to-peer vehicle sharing platforms, as defined in the bill, are rentors for the purposes of taxation.